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About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good – you’ve come to the right place.

About Salesforce

We’re Salesforce, the Customer Company, inspiring the future of business with AI+ Data +CRM. Leading with our core values, we help companies across every industry blaze new trails and connect with customers in a whole new way. And, we empower you to be a Trailblazer, too — driving your performance and career growth, charting new paths, and improving the state of the world. If you believe in business as the greatest platform for change and in companies doing well and doing good– you’ve come to the right place.

Role Description
Salesforce has immediate opportunities for software developers who want their lines of code to have significant and measurable positive impact for users, the company's bottom line, and the industry. You will be working with a group of world-class engineers to build the breakthrough features our customers will love, adopt, and use while keeping our trusted CRM platform stable and scalable. The software engineer role at Salesforce encompasses architecture, design, implementation, and testing to ensure we build products right and release them with high quality.

Code review, mentoring junior engineers, and providing technical guidance to the team (depending on the seniority level) We pride ourselves on writing high-quality, maintainable code that strengthens the stability of the product and makes our lives easier. We embrace the hybrid model and celebrate the individual strengths of each team member while encouraging everyone on the team to grow into the best version of themselves. We believe that autonomous teams with the freedom to make decisions will empower the individuals, the product, the company, and the customers they serve to thrive.

Your Impact

As a Backend Principal Engineer, your job responsibilities will include:

• Build new and exciting components in an ever-growing and evolving market technology to provide scale and efficiency.

• Develop high-quality, production-ready code that can be used by millions of users of our applications

• Make design decisions on the basis of performance, scalability, and future expansion.

• Work in a Hybrid Engineering model and contribute to all phases of SDLC including design, implementation, code reviews, automation, and testing of the features.

• Build efficient components/algorithms on a microservice multi-tenant SaaS cloud environment

• Code review, mentoring junior engineers, and providing technical guidance to the team (depending on the seniority level)

Required Skills:

• Mastery of multiple programming languages and platforms;

• 15+ years of software development experience;

• Deep understanding and experience in working on distributed systems

• Deep understanding of Services Oriented Architecture

• Deep knowledge of object-oriented programming and other scripting languages: C++, C#.Net, Java, Python, Scala, Go, and Node.JS

• Excellent RDBMS concepts and developed applications on top of SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL

• Experience with developing SAAS applications over public cloud infrastructure - AWS/Azure/GCP;

• Proficiency in queues, locks, scheduling, event-driven architecture, and workload distribution, along with a deep understanding of relational database and non-relational databases;

• A deeper understanding of software development best practices and demonstrating leadership skills;

• Degree or equivalent relevant experience required. Experience will be evaluated based on the core competencies for the role (e.g. extracurricular leadership roles, military experience, volunteer roles, work experience, etc.)

Preferred Skills:

• NoSQL such as Cassandra, HBase and/or document store such as Elastic Search

• Experience with open source projects such as Kafka, Spark, or Zookeeper

• Knowledge/Contribution to open source technology

• Native Windows or Linux development experience

• Developing RESTful services.

• Security concepts (mTLS, PKI, OAuth/SAML etc)

• Experience with distributed caching and load balancing systems

BENEFITS & PERKS

• Comprehensive benefits package including well-being reimbursement, generous parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility benefits, and more!

• World-class enablement and on-demand training with Trailhead.com

• Exposure to executive thought leaders and regular 1:1 coaching with leadership

• Volunteer opportunities and participation in our 1:1:1 model for giving back to the community

For more details, visit https://www.salesforcebenefits.com/

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